'Dear T.S. Eliot... Yours, Groucho' [a selection of letters in The Sunday Times, Weekly Review]

Bookseller Notes

This selection of correspondence from 'The Groucho Letters', on the eve of the book's publication in the UK, comprises six letters from Eliot to Marx and four letters in return - as well as two letters from Groucho concerning the poet, one to Gummo describing their meeting. They are the record of an unexpected friendship and fandom - they discuss an exchange of portraits, and their mutual admiration, with warmth and humour; most amusing is the comedian's description of their first face-to-face meeting, each trying to impress upon the other their enthusiasm for their work rather than receive the intended compliment.